The Israeli military said it struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday, carrying out a ``wide-scale'' strike in response to rocket fire on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights the day before.
A Britain-based war monitoring group said (...)
Israel said its aircraft struck dozens of Iranian and Syrian military targets in Syria on Wednesday in retaliation for rockets fired toward Israel a day earlier.
Syrian state media reported two civilians were killed in the attacks, but said Syria's (...)
Israel and the militant Islamic Jihad group in Gaza appeared to have reached a cease-fire on Thursday to end two days of heavy fighting that killed at least 34 Palestinians and paralyzed parts of Israel.
Islamic Jihad spokesman Musab al-Berim said (...)
“The EU will have to wait a long time before America has any clear strategy in Syria,” one baffled European diplomat told Al-Ahram Weekly this week, commenting on the apparent contradictions between US President Donald Trump and his defence (...)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had hoped to be out of the country on 10 November, the anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. But his advisors warned him that this might not go over well with his supporters. So, he changed his (...)
Arab Music Institute
22 Ramsis St, Tel 02 2574 3373
Fri 15 and Sun 17, 8pm: The world's greatest musicals and famous songs performed by the Cairo Opera Company, supervised by Iman Mustafa and directed by Hazem Roushdi.
Sat 16, 8pm: Sultanate of (...)
Israel killed a top commander from the Iranian-backed Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a rare targeted strike in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and militants responded by firing rockets at Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv.
In the most (...)
The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said Israel targeted the house of one of its officials in the Syrian capital on Tuesday, killing one of his sons.
Syrian state media earlier reported that at least two people were killed and six wounded (...)
Renowned Syrian singer Assala will close the ongoing Arab Music Festival with a concert held at the `cairo Opera House's main hall on 12 November.
Born in 1969 in Damascus, Assala's three-decades long career brought her high recognition and a large (...)
After a long series of meetings in Astana, Sochi and elsewhere, the Syrian Committee in charge of drafting a new constitution began its work in Geneva this week, with 150 members equally divided between the regime led by Syrian President Bashar (...)
The 28th Arab Music Festival and Conference (1-12 November)
Arab Music Institute
22 Ramsis St, Tel 02 2574 3373
Thurs 7, 8pm: Sharara Sextet features violinist Hassan Sharara.
Fri 8, 8pm: Singers Rehab Omar and Marwa Hamdy in a programme of Umm (...)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that his government's ultimate goal was to restore state authority over Kurdish controlled areas in northeast Syria after an abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal but he expected it to happen gradually.
In a (...)
SANA reported on Sunday clashes between the Syrian army and Turkish forces near to Ras al-Ain, a town in northern Syria on the Turkish border.
Turkey did not immediately confirm the clashes. Separately, the defense ministry in Ankara said one member (...)
Russia has sent hundreds of additional troops to Syria to help patrol the country's Turkey-Syria border after a deal between Moscow and Ankara, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.
The ministry said about 300 military police have arrived in (...)
As Russian and Turkish leaders divvy up security roles in northeast Syria following an abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal, President Donald Trump is focused on oil fields elsewhere in the war-torn country.
Trump spurred a fresh wave of criticism Thursday (...)
The Pentagon is considering keeping some U.S. troops near oilfields in northeastern Syria alongside Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to help deny oil to Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday.
U.S. troops are (...)
The international community needs to revise its deterrence strategies and examine whether economic solutions are the correct way to address political problems, many commentators say. It needs to look for alternative policies to replace the existing (...)
The commander of Kurdish forces in northeast Syria told the United States he had met all obligations set out in a U.S.-brokered truce, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, as Washington warned it would punish Turkey if it resumes hostilities.
The (...)
Turkey and Russia will discuss the removal of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from the northern Syrian towns of Manbij and Kobani during talks in Sochi next week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday.
Turkey paused its military (...)
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey would press on with its offensive into northeastern Syria and "crush the heads of terrorists" if a deal with Washington on the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters from the area were not fully (...)
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met President Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Thursday on a mission to persuade him to halt an offensive against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, but Turkish officials said the action would continue regardless.
The (...)
Not since the “coup attempt” of mid-June 2016 has there been such a boisterous mobilisation of pro-Erdogan media. The drum rolls thundered and the fanfare blared, ushering in the so-called “Spring of Peace” operation. State-run media are on duty (...)
United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen held talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem in Damascus on Wednesday, his spokeswoman said.
Pedersen was expected to raise Turkey's week-old incursion in northeastern Syria, diplomats (...)
President Donald Trump on Wednesday played down the crisis in Syria touched off by Turkey's incursion against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces, saying the conflict was between Turkey and Syria and that it was "fine" for Russia to help Damascus.
Trump, (...)
The Trump administration dispatched its top officials to Turkey on Wednesday for emergency talks to try to persuade Ankara to halt an assault on northern Syria, while Russian troops swept into territory abandoned by Washington in a sudden (...)
